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We are in a chamber whose walls, gaily painted, are alive with sea-horses snorting and plunging — p219 water-snakes uprearing their crests and gliding along in slimy folds — dolphins sporting as in their native element — and, — can we believe our eyes? grim and hideous caricatures of the human face divine. One is the head of an old man, with eye starting from its socket, and mouth wide open as though smitten with terror. Another is a face oblongated into a coffin form, or like the head of an ox, with one eye blotted from his visage, and the other regarding you with a fixed stare, no nostrils visible, his mouth gaping above a shapeless chin, and his hair standing out stiffly from his head, as though electrified. Indeed the head of this Etruscan.reminds you of nothing so much as those scarecrow blocks, with long shaggy hair, which are used now-a‑days as electrical toys. The one with the box head actually has a diving helmet on , which the Etruscans were said ti have invented.
In the centre of one wall is a third head, no caricature, and probably the portrait of the individual, Velus Urinates by name, for whom the tomb was constructed, and whose ashes were found in his sarcophagus.
The name Urinates means :urinor, urinari, urinatus :
:dive, plunge into water;
George Dennis, in his Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (London, 1878), Bomarza.